Chad Maps and Travel Guides

We suggest that everyone traveling to Chad take a map and guidebook. One of the best ways to enhance any trip is to gather as much information as possible before traveling. Advance information will help you pack more efficiently and incur less surprises. Each country of Africa can be very different than the next so go prepared and have a great time. Map Town carries an excellent selection of maps for the whole region and each individual country. Buy a Chad map and travel guide to ensure you get the most out of your holiday.

Chad Maps

• Chad Travel Maps

Chad Travel Guides

• Chad Travel Guides

Facts and Online Map of Chad

• Information and On-Line Map for Chad

A landlocked country in north-central Africa, Chad is about 85% the size of Alaska. Its neighbors are Niger, Libya, the Sudan, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Nigeria. Lake Chad, from which the country gets its name, lies on the western border with Niger and Nigeria. In the north is a desert that runs into the Sahara.

Chad, part of France's African holdings until 1960, endured three decades of ethnic warfare as well as invasions by Libya before a semblance of peace was finally restored in 1990. A transitional government eventually suppressed or came to terms with most political-military groups, settled a territorial dispute with Libya on terms favorable to Chad, drafted a democratic constitution, and held multiparty presidential and National Assembly elections in 1996 and 1997 respectively. In 1998 a new rebellion broke out in northern Chad, which continued to escalate throughout 1999. Despite movement toward democratic reform, power remains in the hands of a northern ethnic oligarchy.